Roanoke, VA: Urban Poverty

Volunteer Venture: Roanoke focuses on issues of urban poverty. Students work with Total Action Against Poverty (TAP). TAP provides education, training, and life opportunities to enable low-income individuals and families to become self-reliant. TAP "helps those disenfranchised from society discover the American Dream."

From reading to a Head Start classroom to assisting VA Cares in enabling formerly incarcerated individuals to reestablish healthy relationships with their families, Volunteer Venture participants will acquire a knowledge of the many factors contributing to poverty in southwest Virginia and the efforts to alleviate them.

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